Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2903af5775e7d6c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 20:28:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d2f1cb34c457bf2cb682b18e0c563479 SHA-1: 5249f6063cd81a9f30b0ad19b68fa0ed154a4b3f SHA-256: 2903af5775e7d6c753386e5e03b25f9fcf5e337fab0175f52701ad08a612256a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Additionally, it contains a mass external PDF link farm, suggesting a tactic to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious links. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and link farm structure point to a malicious redirection or SEO spam attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=borderlands+2+mods+pc
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_233d63fd43384f64a6583dfb153e8502.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a749f06352934335ae43fd715734e904.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3bf302_cf0183b116da4d9dad3a159605b0aa25.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7510/7992/files/amd_catalyst_driver_windows_10.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f7815_a8c19eae82f649439980d27df9e0aa83.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3279adcd308141108f647b98d0b30610.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/48d9a1_27f930c688aa4b6bb2fada3cb643d3b1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/54fa57_e3ac65e0bab842738f4bef10ce102852.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d224297b83204df286bf3ea34a045d72.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/accd1f_d26846d93e6e459281995c4e8436da92.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0c41e7_1140182039094b4fbbd60d23d2c950a0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/daca0d_42e6a410aaa84984bd3efaf0db7fdaaf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97634b_32230f7e96754b97a986033b5e89f8a3.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007c37.bin
5bc226af208ebd4b8251144dca0add24f213b69ea5654b8b56a5f5ee38877dc9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C37 5400 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008e7e.bin
c03a84501d1a9f4b7cbfff0349fd3b7238a2643e1918378526492a162a06f5aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E7E 10792 bytes